web bloat - true champs

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https://www.salon.com/

| (Latham Green), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:19 (two years ago)

I dunno if it counts as bloaty when it's an intended maximalist aesthetic but...
https://theoutline.com/
but it is dead so bloaty... corpse?

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:48 (two years ago)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com

| (Latham Green), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 20:18 (two years ago)

it counts

| (Latham Green), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 20:18 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

what is web bloat?

sarahell, Friday, 2 December 2022 06:00 (two years ago)

there's a hidden kind of web bloat where a site will load tons of frameworks and libraries to show simple things.
here's a popular article that explains it (ironically the live version is so lean, it won't bother to load working images)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190324214252/https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

but there's also a loud and proud web bloat where visually assaulting you on all sides is the point:
https://www.lingscars.com/
funny enough, this monstrosity is probably less bloated underneath than most "minimalist" e-commerce sites, though they spent a few bytes for a joke you can only see if you view source.

basically ilxor.com is the opposite of web-bloat.

Philip Nunez, Saturday, 3 December 2022 17:01 (two years ago)

the ultimate bloat is advertising, some news page thats got javascript coming in from ten different places none of which care about size number of requests etc

lag∞n, Saturday, 3 December 2022 17:05 (two years ago)

two months pass...

Fandom.com is almost unusable

| (Latham Green), Monday, 6 February 2023 19:20 (two years ago)

https://libredirect.github.io/

extension that auto-redirects the browser to de-bloated frontends for YT, twitter, fandom, etc.

it's mostly intended for privacy but imo it really excels at making the replaced sites tolerable

chihuahuau, Monday, 6 February 2023 21:26 (two years ago)

cool!

| (Latham Green), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 14:51 (two years ago)

thought this was a thread for some new indie album

nxd, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 14:55 (two years ago)

mayb eit is...

| (Latham Green), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 17:41 (two years ago)

two years pass...

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnlqvysuad5nbjdtw267vont/post/3lpvxayws6s2w

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

chihuahuau, Sunday, 25 May 2025 11:55 (one month ago)

the website can talk to 82 servers if it wants as a treat

lag∞n, Sunday, 25 May 2025 12:41 (one month ago)

four weeks pass...

someone here might appreciate this extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fucking-jpeg/

descriptive 5-star review

When i try to open a fucking jpeg i expect to get a fucking jpeg, not 50Mb of javascript placeholders swirling on a page i didn't want.

chihuahuau, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 22:25 (two days ago)


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